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1. We are all cheating. We are cheating Sony out of their rights to control their own intellectual property, created through years of R&D and most likely millions of dollars spent. With Uthgaard's (and others) seemingly ultra-conservative "Law & Order" stance toward cheating, they should take a good look at themselves before getting up on the soap box about using ShowEQ and other third party programs. 2. "Players need to use their common sense here and not do unethical things for personal gain." This is quoted directly from the "Server Rules" thread here: http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1057. Once again, I'd like to point out that we are all doing an "unethical thing" by violating Sony's EULA for Everquest. We are stealing Sony's intellectual property for the personal gain of playing for free and getting the classic EQ experience. Hypocrisy strike #2. 3. "DO NOT post copyrighted materials, links to get copyrighted materials, or discuss illegal methods to obtain copyrighted materials." Once again, quoted from the Server Rules. We are all violating this rule just by playing P1999! Where is the "ban the cheaters crowd for violating the server rules?" This whole server, and game, is a copyrighted material and we are using this message board to discuss methods to illegally obtain copyrighted materials (from downloading the version of this game required to play to the actual hosting of this illegal Everquest server). In conclusion, the ultra-conservative stance of "ban the cheaters" is parallel to (I said "parallel to", not "equal to") the "Law & Order" political right's stance of "hang 'em all." Now, I'd be absolutely thrilled if P1999's player base was generally Republican/Conservative, but I have a feeling that the majority of P1999's player base is Democrat/liberal. "Hang 'em all" has never been a philosophy subscribed to by rational, free thinking people. In the end, the Admins of this server have every right to ban anyone they want, for any reason they decide. The Supreme Court case involving the Boy Scouts and their policy of of discrimination against gays reinforced a citizen's Constitutional (and God given) right to control their property (and in this case, the P1999 server's access). However, I think that those who subscribe to a "ban them all" mentality need to take a good look at themselves before they post photo shopped images supporting a 'ban them all' policy. They need to take a good, honest, look at their own hypocrisy when it comes to unethical behavior and infringing upon Sony's right to not be *cheated* out of their right to profit from their own creative work...before they post flames/rants/really lame photo shopped images. | |||
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1. We are all cheating. We are cheating Sony out of their rights to control their own intellectual property, created through years of R&D and most likely millions of dollars spent.
Stopped reading there. It's their sandbox, they can do whatever the flip they want. Obey the rules or stop playing/leave, simple as that. There's no way to justify SEQ/MQ2 usage on this server - don't know if you were trying to do so (see above). | ||
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Wash that down with a milk steak big Salty and this whole issue can be left behind us.
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Don't you think that the server would have been shut down years ago if it were truly against the EULA? Don't you think Sony has the time and money to pursue a suit against someone supposedly "cheating" them out of 20,000 potential accounts? Don't you think Sony would be trying to hire these guys to develop a "classic feel" server if they thought it would be profitable? Your OP flies directly in the face of reality.
P.S. Also, if you want pure pristine non-cheating servers, I suggest you all go play on live. (For the sarcastically challenged) THIS IS SARCASM! | ||
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"Because no one is stopping me, that makes it right!" "Because no one is getting hurt, that makes it right!" /end Sarcasm Doesn't make us right, here at P1999. Just makes a whole lot of us wrong. I'm perfectly cool with that. But most importantly I'm not going around, acting all high and mighty, loudly proclaiming from a soap box we should ban all the cheaters with no mercy. I would appreciate it if you could make some coherent arguments that address the core of the matter, rather than simply trying to justify your actions. When people post a litany of excuses in response to someone questioning their integrity, they're usually just trying to assuage a guilty conscience. | |||
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